Hindi

Najma describes what it was like leaving her one month old daughter behind when looking for a job in India. She remembers missing the important milestones in her baby’s life and the way she felt when her daughter failed to recognise her.

Najma remembers her childhood in Bangladesh. As the eldest child of a poor family, Najma recalls crossing the border from Bangladesh to India in hope of finding a job that could support her family. Once she arrived in India, she faced challenges learning a new language and securing a source of income.

Tom Badham-Thornhill describes one of the ways he learned Hindi while volunteering abroad in rural India after University: his Indian mother would teach him ridiculous phrases to try out with good-humored locals.